CURATED BY – GAURAV SINGHAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Saharanpur, five thousand houses of Mirzapur area will get electricity due to the increase of one and a half megawatt power generation in Khara Vidyut Project started in 1992. Executive Engineer of the project Chandra Prasad Bhan said that by 15th February, the supply of increased power will start to 33 KVA power house of Kalsia. Till now 72 megawatt power is being generated in Khara Vidyut Project. Three turbines of 24-24 megawatt are installed. After that Bavel and Belka hydroelectric projects were constructed. Where three megawatt power is being generated, that means till now 78 megawatt total power was being generated from Khara Vidyut Project. In this connection, the work of new unit of one and a half megawatt was also completed, which was tested and was successful. Executive Engineer Chandrabhan Prasad said that electricity worth Rs. 1.90 crore is being generated every month from Khara Project. The special thing is that this project is pollution free and the cost of electricity is only 63 paise per unit. Keep in mind that Khara project is located near Hathnikund Barrage on the border of Uttarakhand, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Khara project is getting water supply from Asan Barrage which is in Uttarakhand, from where water is produced in Kulhal Power Project Uttarakhand, 30 MW of electricity and from there it flows to Ara and produces electricity again. Before the formation of Uttarakhand, Kulhal Power Project was operated by Uttar Pradesh.